核心畫面
Picture yourself judging something only from the outside — by how it looks or feels — without claiming to know for sure. 'Seem' can be thought of as putting a soft gap between what shows on the surface and what is truly so: it looks this way to me, but I'm not stating it as a fact.
可以想成你只憑外表、只憑感覺去判斷一件事，並不敢拍胸脯說一定如此。「seem」的核心畫面比較像在「表面看起來的樣子」…更多收起
可以想成你只憑外表、只憑感覺去判斷一件事，並不敢拍胸脯說一定如此。「seem」的核心畫面比較像在「表面看起來的樣子」和「事實真的如何」之間，輕輕留一道縫：在我看來是這樣，但我沒把它說死成事實。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
seemverb/ˈsiːm/
- 1
To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
- She is seeming a bit down these days. Her eyes seem blue. It must have seemed to her she was safe. How'd she seem to you? He seems not to be at home. "It seems like rain". "It seems to me (to be) rather sleety."; "There seem to be a few problems."
- It seems a pity, but I can't see you this weekend.
- 2
obsoleteTo befit; to beseem.
- And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farre: Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。